BA Applied Social Science with Foundation Year - Full-time/part-time

Introduction

This exciting and innovative degree offers you the opportunity to break through traditional disciplinary boundaries. The course has been designed to allow you to follow your own interests, whilst providing you with the knowledge and experience to investigate and understand the important issues faced by society today.

Taught by academics who are leading innovators in research methods, as well as being respected academics in their subject areas, you will be able to select modules from: Journalism, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Social Policy, Sociology, Politics, Criminology, Urban Studies, and Education, Culture & Childhood.

Foundation Year

The foundation year of the programme provides people with non-standard entry qualifications a thorough and supportive academic preparation for successful degree level study in the Sheffield Methods Institute. It is carefully designed to build your confidence in your abilities, develop essential academic and study skills, and provide the subject specific knowledge essential for success.

This year is taught within the Department for Lifelong Learning, where we have nearly forty years’ experience working with adult learners, helping them to unlock their potential to succeed through offering accessible foundation courses that can lead to full and part-time degree level study. You'll be learning alongside other students who are studying for a number of different degrees, typically in small classes, supporting one another to develop and succeed.

Progression to the Sheffield Methods Institute

Students will progress to the Sheffield Methods Institute after completing their foundation year, subject to meeting progression thresholds which differ across courses and departments. These will be discussed with applicants at interview. These thresholds can also be found by searching for the relevant degree course within the University's Programme Regulations Finder and viewing information relating to 'Year 0'.

Attendance and length of programme

The foundation level will be taught within DLL, where modules are taught both during the daytime and in the evenings. You will then study in the daytime at the higher levels of study within the Sheffield Methods Insitute.

It will take you one year (full-time) or two years (part-time) to complete the foundation year and, if you successfully pass that, it will take you a further three years (full-time) or six years (part-time) years to complete your degree.